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i hate when someone asks a question, but qualifies it to only want answers from some specific subset of people, when that limitation isn't really relevant, and other types of folks are likely to have answers too.
a made up example: "Truck drivers of lemmy, what's your favourite platformer video game?"
Age related. There is a user who keeps asking if it's ok for adults of different ages to date, marry, whatever. Dude kept asking so often I had to block.
Grimereaper. Yup. I have them tagged as "Weirdly obsessed with age gaps and superheroes"
That's the one.
I always assume it's someone just trying to curve the legality of consent or just sparking a unnecessary debate over consent. It's just baiting at this point.
How do I do x in a Linux/Software. Mostly because there is not a lot of discussion going on and I can't contribute anything valuable. I might change my mind once I bork my own system once again.
Think of the same twenty or so reposted questions on r/askreddit week after week, and as long as I don’t see those I’m happy. What I love most about this community is people seeking very specific information or help on a given issue and actually getting it.
That being said, I’m also a habitual shitposter. I get a laugh out of seeing and posting questions like that and I hope people like to use them to either play along with the joke or use it to make a good point.
Questions that don't invite discussion are bad content. When there's basically no replies to top comments it's a poor post.
What should I do about my bad coworkers?
In general, the "what's your favorite [x]?" questions, where [x] is movie, album, game, or the like. Few people share anything about the title, or why it's meaningful to them, and very little discussion ensues, because, what's to talk about? It just tends to result in a list of media (most of which I've heard of) connected to screen names of people I don't know. Not usually worth reading.
I'm guilty of asking these questions lol.
I just distrust google results with "TOP 10 [Movie/TV] you MUST watch", reddit is also kinda sussy with a lot of default Word_Word_1234 names, so fediverse is the only place left to actually get recommendations.
And the reason why ask even if there might be a similar thread in the past, is maybe there's something new released since the time after the previous person asked.
But yea I think people answering should provide a short description on what it's about, otherwise its just a title in a sea of titles.
What's great is that no matter how easy it is to ask those kind of questions, even for the most... intellectually challenged trolls, it's even simpler for all of us readers to ignore them and not get triggered, or even not worrying about them being a thing ;)
Questions that are more appropriate as websearches. No need to ask here to learn the capital city of Lithuania or the law on jaywalking in OP's home town.
I usually tag the users most blatantly guilty of that as "LMGTFY" and move on.
(LMGTFY = let me google that for you, a phrase but also a link generator one could send someone that opens to a recording of their question being typed into google search and then providing them with results)
People are starting to do this more often because the search engines are failing them. Google has long stopped being reliable. I can't tell you how many times I would ask a question that relates to a law in my state, out of curiosity and I'd get a totally different state in the country. It's frustrating. I'd almost always get California-related stuff. Like hello? I don't live there!
I weaned off AskReddit when the majority of questions was sexual in nature. Not sure what it's like there today.
This community usually has non-thirsty questions, which is cool for me.
I really don't mind the vast majority. Unless it's really dumb, hateful or repetitive, I'm good. It's just one more thing to scroll past, if I'm not interested. Though I do notice people with cool input running for the hills when the questions aren't 'exquisite' enough and places can turn dull.
Anything that starts off negatively. . .
Mainly the "look at me, I'm smart" questions.
Normal Xitter post: Look at me I'm stupid
I can prove it
People who're desperately seeking the dark secrets of others. This never made sense to me for anyone to ask and a lot of the answers are usually things that aren't that dark to begin with, like someone hiding their alcoholism or using drugs. Those kind of things are unfortunately expected of people. What people who ask for dark secrets really want, is something so that they can have dirt on you to feel better about themselves over. It's always that.
Soft-ball questions that come out boring like "What's your favorite...?" or "If you had a time machine what would you do?" or "What would you do if you had a lot of money?" because they just come off monotonous to engage with.
Speaking of money, lots of money-related questions. You know, don't ask me what I'd do with a million dollars unless you're going to actually give me a million dollars. Otherwise, I don't like the idea of sitting here and typing a theoretical answer to something I'm never going to have.
What's your favorite song
This one
